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[Greg Erskine]

Probably true.

I do have a reasonably good power service, haven't had a blackout for many years. Seems a common problem now-a-days.....

[Greg Erskine]

We decided to go the piCore route. Minimalist install, a few hundred megabytes. Raspberry Pi OS, for example, has all the bells and whistles and is over 4 gigabytes. There are quite a few really good audio distributions based on top of RPiOS for that reason....

[Greg Erskine]

I think if one of the piCorePlayer authors had a problem with their LMS setups, that required ntp, it would become a default install. The piCorePlayer guys are spread around the world and none of us have this issue....

[Greg Erskine]

Those install scripts are for Raspberry Pi OS not piCore.

[Greg Erskine]

Ron,

There are quite a few gotchas getting this working.

First, check the version of /usr/local/etc/init.d/squeezelite you are using.

cat /usr/local/etc/init.d/squeezelite
# Version: 4.0.0 2018-0-15 - NO
# Version: 8.2.1 2022-11-17 - YES

...

[Greg Erskine]

He is using piCore not RaspberryPi OS....

[Greg Erskine]

suppliccant.conf should be wpa_supplicant.conf...

[Greg Erskine]

ssh [email protected] should be ssh [email protected]

[Greg Erskine]

Your assumption is right, a default pCP build will just attach to a network over wired ethernet.

Squeezelite though, may not start if the sound card is not available and therefore will not appear in LMS.

By default, it should default to Headphones.

[Greg Erskine]

You really need to try for yourself. Some people can hear differences, some can't.

I tend to go for convenience over perceived improvements....

[Greg Erskine]

Very strange for a text editor not to have a paste command.

onboot.list should be onboot.lst but....

I don't think editing onboot.lst is necessary....

[Greg Erskine]

I think you should forget about piCorePlayer and start with RPiOS.

As you are probably aware, piCore is not your average Linux distribution.

[Greg Erskine]

No need to add those. Everything in home/tc is already included in the backup.

Try adding command to [Tweaks] > "User commands". It should run late enough in the boot process.

While adding stuff to home/tc is OK for testing, you should really investigate making...

[Greg Erskine]

Before you posted the link, no one knew what hardware or software you were using. You were a bit scant on details.

The instructions are for a "generic" 3.5 inch display. If your display is compatible with the generic display then the instructions should get it functioning....

[Greg Erskine]

I believe we removed it years ago.

It was slowing things down and until the time was synced it would show the wrong time.

I'm still looking for a report or log that shows the time!!

[Greg Erskine]

See piCorePlayer Documentation "Access piCorePlayer via ssh"....

[Greg Erskine]

I have a dim memory that the "Whole SD Card" option is actually a fraction less (maybe 100MB??) to give a little wiggle room.

The flexible resizing option was really just to give people the choice, especially as SD cards got bigger or if you use a third partition.

[Greg Erskine]

See piCorePlayer documentation, Projects, Add a Topping E30 USB DAC.

Different USB DAC but the process should be the same.

In step 9, instead of hw:CARD=E30,DEV=0 use what is appropriate for your DAC.

[Greg Erskine]

OK, no prob.

[Greg Erskine]

Is it possible to add a "Mark Channels Read" link on the Unread Posts and Recent Posts pages?